Shashi Tharoor says Dhurandhar is full of propaganda Pakistanis will “laugh” at

The daily briefing

Thursday 22 October 2026

CULTURE

The Congress MP praised Ranveer Singh’s spy films but said Pakistanis watching them might realise “how much wrong has been done in their name”.

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INTERNATIONAL

India rejects OIC resolutions, accuses Pakistan of misusing the bloc

New Delhi called references to India in the resolutions of the OIC foreign ministers’ meeting in Baghdad “malicious, biased and false” and said they had been orchestrated by Islama…

INTERNATIONAL

Delhi court orders release of Cockroach Janta Party leaders after week in Tihar

Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, arrested for scaling barricades at Jantar Mantar, walked free vowing to keep up their campaign against India’s chief election commissioner.

DEFENSE

Asim Munir and Maldives’ Muizzu agree to deepen defence cooperation

The army chief met the Maldivian president in Islamabad on the second day of the first visit by a Maldivian head of state in 11 years, as the two countries signed a defence and mar…

ECONOMY

Petrol cut by Rs2.71 a litre, diesel up by 31 paisa

Petrol will sell at Rs379.31 a litre and high-speed diesel at Rs390.11 from Thursday under the government’s daily pricing system, still well above pre-war levels.

SPORTS

Barcelona complain to UEFA over PSG fans’ ‘chainsaw massacre’ banner

The tifo showed a masked man in a PSG shirt sawing through Barcelona’s crest before the holders’ 4-2 win, a night that also cost them Kvaratskhelia for the season.

INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan arrests man wanted in US over $126 million fake postage scheme

Faheem Akram, 33, is accused of selling more than 5.1 million counterfeit US postage labels for about $2 each through LabelsBank.com, costing the US Postal Service an estimated Rs3…

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ANALYSIS

With Badr, four Muslim powers bet on building their weapons together

Signed in Doha with little fanfare, the Badr memorandum joins Turkish factories, Qatari capital, Pakistani scale and an Indonesian market. Read as industrial policy rather than a p…

ANALYSIS

Through the Maldives, Pakistan stakes a claim to a bigger Indian Ocean role

A maritime security pact signed during President Muizzu’s visit gives Islamabad a foothold in waters New Delhi has long treated as its own backyard.